Tarah

given name · Latin script

Meaning: The v/iii Y bov

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tarah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 78K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 165K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,269 people, 2020

Sources
344 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The v/iii Y bov

Sources 1

  • A Handbook of African Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tarah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Tarah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,2691 in 78K4.3KTarah344
CA Canada≈440 est.≈1 in 86K6Tarah115
GB United Kingdom≈400 est.≈1 in 165KlistedTarah83
AU Australia≈350 est.≈1 in 72K3Tarah68
PH Philippines≈290 est.≈1 in 374K—Tarah26
NZ New Zealand≈33 est.≈1 in 150K—Tarah17

4,269 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; the ca-statcan-baby-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tarah is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ṭārah, Tarāḥ

  • English given name64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Tara, Taera, Tera, 태라, T'Ara

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tarah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In poz-mly-pro, to smooth or level wood with an adze or similar tool

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlm, planing with an adze; shaping, rough-hewing

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Malay, to smooth or level wood with a knife

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, to be planed (of a piece of wood)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In map-pro, to wait

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1970198019902000Tarah Wheeler, b. 1979Tarah New, b. 1987Tarah Kayne, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Tarah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.3K#4,401
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1985267—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1984265—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1983262—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1988212—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1981212—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1982205—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1989196—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1987196—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1986188—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1990184—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1980179—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tarah mean, and where does it come from?
The v/iii Y bov Recorded by A Handbook of African Names.
Is Tarah a male or female name?
Tarah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Tarah?
In the etymology graph, Tara, Tera and Tarina are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Tarah have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Tarah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tarah.
How common is the name Tarah?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,269 people named Tarah in 2020, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tarah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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